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Ticket Deadline Extendedhttp://www.greatelectrictrainshow.com/view_article.asp?id=10907
http://www.greatelectrictrainshow.com/view_article.asp?id=10907The deadline for advance ticket sales for the Great Electric Train Show has been extended to Wednesday October 10th. The discounted tickets offer up to 25% off on-the-day prices as well as early entry to this not-to-be-missed model railway event on the weFri, 5 Oct 2018 18:09:29 GMTHow to find us...http://www.greatelectrictrainshow.com/view_article.asp?id=10779
http://www.greatelectrictrainshow.com/view_article.asp?id=10779<b>Getting there</b>
Milton Keynes is the central point between London and Birmingham, located just off the M1 via Junction 13 from the south (A5) and Junction 14 (A421) from the north and east, and connected to the two cities by rail via the West CoastFri, 28 Sep 2018 11:20:21 GMTNew VIP Great Electric Train Show ticketshttp://www.greatelectrictrainshow.com/view_article.asp?id=10886
http://www.greatelectrictrainshow.com/view_article.asp?id=10886An exciting new limited edition VIP ticket package is now available for the Great Electric Train Show 2018 at our new venue, Arena MK, Milton Keynes.
Thu, 27 Sep 2018 17:38:17 GMTFEATURE: Weathering http://www.greatelectrictrainshow.com/view_article.asp?id=8678
http://www.greatelectrictrainshow.com/view_article.asp?id=8678Mick Bonwick is a regular at the Great Electric Train Show and brings a wealth of weathering experience in his comprehensive demonstration.Tue, 25 Sep 2018 17:06:10 GMTFEATURE: Building Constructionhttp://www.greatelectrictrainshow.com/view_article.asp?id=10713
http://www.greatelectrictrainshow.com/view_article.asp?id=10713Professional model maker and artist David Wright returns to the Great Electric Train Show, offering an insight and guidance for modelling detailed buildings in miniature.Tue, 25 Sep 2018 17:05:33 GMTFEATURE: 3D Laser Scanning http://www.greatelectrictrainshow.com/view_article.asp?id=9148
http://www.greatelectrictrainshow.com/view_article.asp?id=9148Alan Buttler’s 3D laser scanning demonstration is back – and you can be scanned too to appear in model form on your own layout!Tue, 25 Sep 2018 17:04:08 GMTFEATURE: Digital Command Controlhttp://www.greatelectrictrainshow.com/view_article.asp?id=10906
http://www.greatelectrictrainshow.com/view_article.asp?id=10906Simon Howard joins the Great Electric Train Show demonstration line up this year to answer your questions and queries about digital control.
Tue, 25 Sep 2018 17:03:26 GMTFEATURE: Track Constructionhttp://www.greatelectrictrainshow.com/view_article.asp?id=10903
http://www.greatelectrictrainshow.com/view_article.asp?id=10903The Double O Gauge Association (DOGA) is the group for committed ‘OO’ modellers world wide.Tue, 25 Sep 2018 17:02:55 GMTFEATURE: Southwick, BR (SR), 1960shttp://www.greatelectrictrainshow.com/view_article.asp?id=10801
http://www.greatelectrictrainshow.com/view_article.asp?id=10801Set between 1964 and the end of BR Southern Region steam in 1967. The layout represents a fictitious junction station and goods yard on the Southern in 'OO'.Tue, 25 Sep 2018 17:00:56 GMTFEATURE: Oake, WR, 1950s-1960shttp://www.greatelectrictrainshow.com/view_article.asp?id=10853
http://www.greatelectrictrainshow.com/view_article.asp?id=10853Oake is a station on the Taunton to Barnstaple line, about half way between Norton Fitzwarren junction and Milverton on the section of double track and about five miles from Taunton.Tue, 25 Sep 2018 16:59:44 GMTFEATURE: Readham, Western Region, 2000shttp://www.greatelectrictrainshow.com/view_article.asp?id=10892
http://www.greatelectrictrainshow.com/view_article.asp?id=10892Readham was inspired by Reading and Cheltenham and came from the desire to have a modern image Digital Command Control sound layout where the locomotives weren’t just at a constant speed and ‘sound’.Tue, 25 Sep 2018 16:58:50 GMTFEATURE: Loftus Road, West London, 2000shttp://www.greatelectrictrainshow.com/view_article.asp?id=10809
http://www.greatelectrictrainshow.com/view_article.asp?id=10809Loftus Road is based on suburban West London, inspired by Kensington Olympia, set in the time period 1995-present.Tue, 25 Sep 2018 16:56:04 GMTFEATURE: Poulton-le-Fylde, North West, 2000shttp://www.greatelectrictrainshow.com/view_article.asp?id=10807
http://www.greatelectrictrainshow.com/view_article.asp?id=10807Based on the station which serves the Market town of Poulton-le-Fylde, located on the Fylde coast in the north west, this exhibition layout aims to provide both modelling ability as well as operational interest.
Tue, 25 Sep 2018 16:55:24 GMTFEATURE: Newhaven Harbour, BR SR, 1970shttp://www.greatelectrictrainshow.com/view_article.asp?id=10901
http://www.greatelectrictrainshow.com/view_article.asp?id=10901Originally built and exhibited by Colin Parks, the layout has been extensively reworked by the Wigan and Wirral Finescale Railway Modellers.Tue, 25 Sep 2018 16:54:22 GMTFEATURE: Vale of Oxbury, WR, 1960shttp://www.greatelectrictrainshow.com/view_article.asp?id=10850
http://www.greatelectrictrainshow.com/view_article.asp?id=10850Vale of Oxbury is an imagined Western Region junction station set in Oxfordshire in the 1960s with all the trimmings.Tue, 25 Sep 2018 16:53:21 GMTFEATURE: Whitby West Cliff, NER, 1950shttp://www.greatelectrictrainshow.com/view_article.asp?id=10851
http://www.greatelectrictrainshow.com/view_article.asp?id=10851The ‘Golden Line’ along the North Yorkshire coast from Whitby towards Middlesbrough is the subject of this 45ft long ‘OO’ gauge layout.Tue, 25 Sep 2018 16:50:24 GMTFEATURE: Grosvenor Square, BR (WR), 1960shttp://www.greatelectrictrainshow.com/view_article.asp?id=10810
http://www.greatelectrictrainshow.com/view_article.asp?id=10810Grosvenor Square is presented by the Hornby Magazine team in its new extended format for the first time at the Great Electric Train Show.Tue, 25 Sep 2018 16:49:34 GMTFEATURE: 45C, BR (LMR), 1960shttp://www.greatelectrictrainshow.com/view_article.asp?id=10808
http://www.greatelectrictrainshow.com/view_article.asp?id=10808This busy layout models a bustling depot scene in ‘OO’ gauge. It started off as a project to create a half roundhouse and has since been expanded to include a diesel servicing point and part of Stratford Works.Tue, 25 Sep 2018 16:48:00 GMTFEATURE: Bewdley, BR (WR), 1960shttp://www.greatelectrictrainshow.com/view_article.asp?id=10893
http://www.greatelectrictrainshow.com/view_article.asp?id=10893Bewdley is based on the real location at the Severn Valley Railway. To the credit of the SVR very little has changed since 1862, when Bewdley station opened, and close of the line in 1969.Tue, 25 Sep 2018 16:46:57 GMTFEATURE: Loudwater, BR (WR), 1960shttp://www.greatelectrictrainshow.com/view_article.asp?id=10806
http://www.greatelectrictrainshow.com/view_article.asp?id=10806Loudwater is modelled on a station on the former High Wycombe to Maidenhead line and was the first stop after leaving High Wycombe. The line was truncated in 1970 leaving only the Maidenhead to Bourne End section in use.Tue, 25 Sep 2018 16:46:02 GMTFEATURE: Four Sticks, BR ScR, 1980shttp://www.greatelectrictrainshow.com/view_article.asp?id=10895
http://www.greatelectrictrainshow.com/view_article.asp?id=10895Four Sticks is set in the late 1980s and built in 7mm scale. It is a small private business using the remnants of the slowly reducing Speedlink service.Tue, 25 Sep 2018 16:44:28 GMTFEATURE: Hatch End, BR (LMR), 1980shttp://www.greatelectrictrainshow.com/view_article.asp?id=10802
http://www.greatelectrictrainshow.com/view_article.asp?id=10802Hatch End is 18ft long and is based on the real location on the West Coast Main Line in the 1980s.Tue, 25 Sep 2018 16:43:02 GMTFEATURE: Peakstone, NSE, 1980shttp://www.greatelectrictrainshow.com/view_article.asp?id=10854
http://www.greatelectrictrainshow.com/view_article.asp?id=10854Peakstone is set in the 1980-1990 period where north meets south. It is 7ft long and 2ft 6in wide and incorporates a large station area with through lines and a branch line. It is served by inter regional cross country services and a number of freight traTue, 25 Sep 2018 16:42:05 GMTFEATURE: Oakley Green, BR (WR/SR), 1970shttp://www.greatelectrictrainshow.com/view_article.asp?id=10820
http://www.greatelectrictrainshow.com/view_article.asp?id=10820Oakley Green is a ‘OO’ gauge model railway layout based in the mid to late 1970s on the southern regions of the UK.Tue, 25 Sep 2018 16:41:20 GMTFEATURE: Dubmill Sidings, BR (LMR), 1968-1971http://www.greatelectrictrainshow.com/view_article.asp?id=10804
http://www.greatelectrictrainshow.com/view_article.asp?id=10804This 7mm scale ‘O’ gauge layout depicts a fictional non-passenger part of the railway system somewhere in the North Western corner of Cumbria. The chosen era is 1967 to 1970 – green and blue diesels, grey, brown, blue and white freight stock and maroon anTue, 25 Sep 2018 16:40:27 GMTFEATURE: Norwood Park, BR (SR), 1960shttp://www.greatelectrictrainshow.com/view_article.asp?id=10891
http://www.greatelectrictrainshow.com/view_article.asp?id=10891Norwood Park represents a BR Southern Region station in the South London Suburbs in the early 1960s. Although not based on any particular prototype our aim is to portray a fictitious station on a line served by trains of the Central and South Western diviTue, 25 Sep 2018 16:39:21 GMTFEATURE: Hospital Gates, Private railway, 1930shttp://www.greatelectrictrainshow.com/view_article.asp?id=10803
http://www.greatelectrictrainshow.com/view_article.asp?id=10803Many ‘independent’ light railways which sprang up in the early years of the great railway boom operated around sparse traffics with pensionable and homemade rolling stock. Many of these quickly faltered and quietly passed into history during the early parTue, 25 Sep 2018 16:38:32 GMTFEATURE: Ladeside Diesel Depot, BR (ScR), 1960shttp://www.greatelectrictrainshow.com/view_article.asp?id=10818
http://www.greatelectrictrainshow.com/view_article.asp?id=10818Ladeside Diesel Depot is one half a large ‘O’ gauge MPD scene which can be operated in conjunction with St Marnock Shed or, as it is this weekend at the Great Electric Train Show, as an independent layout.
Tue, 25 Sep 2018 16:37:16 GMTFEATURE: Lee-on-the-Solent, LSWR, 1910-1925http://www.greatelectrictrainshow.com/view_article.asp?id=10817
http://www.greatelectrictrainshow.com/view_article.asp?id=10817Lee-on-the-Solent was a bold town planning attempt of the late 1800s. The promoters hoped that here was a watering place with everything going for it. Splendid beach, a pleasant climate, superb views across to the Isle of Wight, the sheltered area of theTue, 25 Sep 2018 16:36:38 GMTFEATURE: Stodden Hundred Light Railway, Industrial, 1930shttp://www.greatelectrictrainshow.com/view_article.asp?id=10898
http://www.greatelectrictrainshow.com/view_article.asp?id=10898The Stodden Hundred Light Railway (SHLR) is a depiction of a rural railway on the borders of Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire in the mid 1930s, just before everything changed during the Second World War.Tue, 25 Sep 2018 16:35:40 GMTFEATURE: Glenfinnan, BR (ScR), 1980shttp://www.greatelectrictrainshow.com/view_article.asp?id=10805
http://www.greatelectrictrainshow.com/view_article.asp?id=10805Glenfinnan is situated on the West Highland Line between Fort William and Mallaig. The line has survived through turbulent times, most notably the Beeching cuts in the 1960s and more recently the Serpell Report of 1983 to examine the viability of the currTue, 25 Sep 2018 16:34:43 GMTFEATURE: Trenance, GWR, 1930shttp://www.greatelectrictrainshow.com/view_article.asp?id=10856
http://www.greatelectrictrainshow.com/view_article.asp?id=10856When the Falmouth MRC was considering a new, small and easily transportable exhibition layout to mark its 60th anniversary year, thoughts turned to a compact branch terminus scheme which could be operated by two people and transported in the back of one oTue, 25 Sep 2018 16:33:36 GMTFEATURE: Wyken Yard, BR LMR, 1960http://www.greatelectrictrainshow.com/view_article.asp?id=10899
http://www.greatelectrictrainshow.com/view_article.asp?id=10899Wyken Yard is a compact 'O' gauge shunting layout, set on BR's London Midland Region in the 1960s, owned and operated by Justin and Nigel Adams.Tue, 25 Sep 2018 16:31:56 GMTFEATURE: Lower Rose Goods, GWR, 1920s-1930shttp://www.greatelectrictrainshow.com/view_article.asp?id=10855
http://www.greatelectrictrainshow.com/view_article.asp?id=10855The model is intended to represent a rural goods depot during the inter-war years, since this is the period most of my rolling stock represents.Tue, 25 Sep 2018 16:27:49 GMTFEATURE: Talbot Lane TMD, 2000shttp://www.greatelectrictrainshow.com/view_article.asp?id=10852
http://www.greatelectrictrainshow.com/view_article.asp?id=10852Marcus Lambert's latest creation is this compact diesel depot in 'OO' gauge.Tue, 25 Sep 2018 16:25:18 GMTFEATURE: Batcombe, BR SR, 1950shttp://www.greatelectrictrainshow.com/view_article.asp?id=10900
http://www.greatelectrictrainshow.com/view_article.asp?id=10900Batcombe represents an attempt by the Southern railway to create a Blackpool type resort on the isle of Purbeck across Poole harbour from the town.Tue, 25 Sep 2018 16:24:31 GMTFEATURE: Merstone, BR SR (IOW), 1960shttp://www.greatelectrictrainshow.com/view_article.asp?id=10897
http://www.greatelectrictrainshow.com/view_article.asp?id=10897Merstone was located in the middle of the Isle of Wight and served the local communities of Merstone and Rookley.Tue, 25 Sep 2018 16:23:18 GMTFEATURE: Buckshee, BR (ScR), 1950s-1970shttp://www.greatelectrictrainshow.com/view_article.asp?id=10819
http://www.greatelectrictrainshow.com/view_article.asp?id=10819It is imagined that Buckshee was intended to be the first station on a projected line from Oban to Campbeltown promoted by the Caledonian Railway after the opening of the Callender and Oban Railway in 1880 - a line was at one time proposed from CampbeltowTue, 25 Sep 2018 16:22:08 GMTFEATURE: Ashington, BR (SR), 1950s/1960shttp://www.greatelectrictrainshow.com/view_article.asp?id=10821
http://www.greatelectrictrainshow.com/view_article.asp?id=10821Ashington is a model of a typical small Southern Region stabling shed as found in many places along the south coast. Adjacent to it is the station of Ashington.Tue, 25 Sep 2018 16:20:36 GMTFEATURE: Static Grasshttp://www.greatelectrictrainshow.com/view_article.asp?id=10902
http://www.greatelectrictrainshow.com/view_article.asp?id=10902Ever wondered how to achieve perfect grass cover on your layout? Green Scenes will be showcasing static grass techniques, demonstrating how to apply it effectively for a realistic appearance.Wed, 19 Sep 2018 17:51:44 GMT